Samuel Johnson Quotes

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Money can't buy poverty.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

There's no future in being poor.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

I'm painfully middle class.

I wasn't rich.